Improvement in paddle-wheels



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'Y n v BY ATTDBNEY N.PEI'ER5. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON, D. Ep

UNITED STATES EDWARD BRAST AND vJOHN BOGER, OF POWHATAN, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN PATENT OFF-10E.v

PADDLE-WHEELS. e

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 177,461, dated May 16, 1876; application iled MarchQ-, 1876. v

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDWARD BEAST and JOHN BOGER, of Powhatan, in the county of Belmont and State of Ohio, have invented-a new and. lmproved Paddle-Wheel, of lwhich the following is a specification The invention'consists in connecting the buckets and arms of -a'water-wheel centrally by a yoke, angle-plate, and double angle-block,

as hereinafter more particularly described.

Figure lis a top View of' our improved wheel. Fig. 2 is an endy elevationwith some parts in section.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents the buckets, which incline from both ends either forward or backwardrelatively to the circumference ofthe wheel to the center, where they are connected to the next arm B, in advance of or behind the one to n which they are connectmed at the outer end, the

said paddles being either made in two parts or one. To the outer arms they are connected by a yoke, D, and a beveled block, E, and at the -center they are connected by a similar yoke, but with a metal angleeplate, F, between them and the arm, and a double beveled block,

G, outside, for Whiclran angle-plate similar to 

